Sunday, September 21, 2014

Alfred Tennyson in COLOR!


Here is the link to see this for yourself on their website,  Tinting History


However, the original photograph can be found on National Portrait Gallery. 

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

woodbury type, published 1883

3 comments:

Hels said...

Not only was Tennyson ennobled... his was a face full of gravitas!

Kevin Marsh said...

Hmmm, not too sure about colouring these great sepias or black and white photographs.
There is something 'historical' about leaving them as original.

Kimberly Eve said...

Hi Hels and Kevin,

Thank you both for commenting. I know how you feel Kevin, some things should be left alone and not messed with but I am curious to know what color his clothes were or his features in full color! Tennyson didn't always wear black. Have you seen the photographs of him in his cream colored men's suit? Oh yeah!!!

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